[…] night. He had extolled their wit, their sense of humor: “Dirt poor in the things of the world, but wonderful people! Humble! Spiritual! God’s children all!” “An inspired call!” he had declared, re-reading the […]
[…] word precedes that of any other literary redemptive mission: “If [we] cannot do justice to the visible world and make of it fictions which are believable, [we] cannot be trusted to bear witness to […]
[…] late 1920s who came of age during the Great Depression and endured the anxieties and sacrifices of World War II. Like my mother, moreover, Fawn was a caring, empathic individual who considered the welfare […]
[…] (Spring 2004): 75–94 However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of the […]
[…] his new tribute-to-Joni-Mitchell CD, River. You gotta love that Herbie, I’m thinking. Tina Turner’s singing “Edith and the Kingpin,” something about victims of typewriters and how the band sounds like typewriters. I laugh. I’m […]
Cyberspace is changing the way religion is practiced in contemporary society. A 2004 Pew Internet and American Life project estimated that 64 percent of American internet users go online for spiritual or religious purposes.Religious […]
[…] minutes but her phone has fallen silent. Other than the shirring of the trees overhead, the whole world is still. Jennifer stands, brushes off her backside, arranges her pack over both shoulders, and starts […]
[…] brazenly unreligious I was, and, as a condition of staying in the band, got me reading Good News for Modern Man. That grey paperback book was the semi-official New Testament of Jesus Freaks, of […]
We will get to the violin playing. First, let’s talk about the dress. On May 17, 2015, the Mormon blogosphere erupted into controversy over the designer gown worn by dancing violinist and YouTube star […]
[…] worried for your three brothers the way I worry for you—because you are a girl in the world, because you’re my girl. You are on the edge of so much, the end of high […]